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Author : Anonim
Publisher : Pioneer Drama Service, Inc.
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Leon Kass
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 722 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2003-05-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780743242998
Imagine that you could really understand the Bible...that you could read, analyze, and discuss the book of Genesis not as a compositional mystery, a cultural relic, or a linguistic puzzle palace, or even as religious doctrine, but as a philosophical classic, precisely in the same way that a truth-seeking reader would study Plato or Nietzsche. Imagine that you could be led in your study by one of America's preeminent intellectuals and that he would help you to an understanding of the book that is deeper than you'd ever dreamed possible, that he would reveal line by line, verse by verse the incredible riches of this illuminating text -- one of the very few that actually deserve to be called seminal. Imagine that you could get, from Genesis, the beginning of wisdom. The Beginning of Wisdom is a hugely learned book that, like Genesis itself, falls naturally into two sections. The first shows how the universal history described in the first eleven chapters of Genesis, from creation to the tower of Babel, conveys, in the words of Leon Kass, "a coherent anthropology" -- a general teaching about human nature -- that "rivals anything produced by the great philosophers." Serving also as a mirror for the reader's self-discovery, these stories offer profound insights into the problematic character of human reason, speech, freedom, sexual desire, the love of the beautiful, pride, shame, anger, guilt, and death. Something as seemingly innocuous as the monotonous recounting of the ten generations from Adam to Noah yields a powerful lesson in the way in which humanity encounters its own mortality. In the story of the tower of Babel are deep understandings of the ambiguous power of speech, reason, and the arts; the hazards of unity and aloneness; the meaning of the city and its quest for self-sufficiency; and man's desire for fame, immortality, and apotheosis -- and the disasters these necessarily cause. Against this background of human failure, Part Two of The Beginning of Wisdom explores the struggles to launch a new human way, informed by the special Abrahamic covenant with the divine, that might address the problems and avoid the disasters of humankind's natural propensities. Close, eloquent, and brilliant readings of the lives and educations of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and Jacob's sons reveal eternal wisdom about marriage, parenting, brotherhood, education, justice, political and moral leadership, and of course the ultimate question: How to live a good life? Connecting the two "parts" is the book's overarching philosophical and pedagogical structure: how understanding the dangers and accepting the limits of human powers can open the door to a superior way of life, not only for a solitary man of virtue but for an entire community -- a life devoted to righteousness and holiness. This extraordinary book finally shows Genesis as a coherent whole, beginning with the creation of the natural world and ending with the creation of a nation that hearkens to the awe-inspiring summons to godliness. A unique and ambitious commentary, a remarkably readable literary exegesis and philosophical companion, The Beginning of Wisdom is one of the most important books in decades on perhaps the most important -- and surely the most frequently read -- book of all time.
Author : J. M. Stone
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-11
Category : History
ISBN : EAN:8596547635420
"The History of Mary I, Queen of England" by J. M. Stone. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
Author : Valerie Schutte,Jessica S. Hower
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2022-04-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030951283
This book—along with its companion volume Writing Mary I: History, Historiography, and Fiction—centers on representations of Queen Mary I in writing, broadly construed, and the process of writing that queen into literature and other textual sources. It spans an equally wide chronological and geographical scope, accounting for the years prior to her accession in July 1553 through the centuries that followed her death in November 1558 and for her reach across England, and into Ireland, Spain, Italy, Russia, and Africa. Its intent is to foreground words and language—written, spoken, and acted out—and, by extension, to draw out matters of and conversations about rhetoric, imagery, methodology, source base, genre, narrative, form, and more. Taken together, these two volumes find in England’s first crowned queen regnant an incomparable opportunity to ask new questions and seek new answers that deepen our understanding of queenship, the early modern era, and modern popular culture.
Author : John Strype
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1822
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555070407
Author : John Strype
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1822
Category : Electronic
ISBN : ZBZH:ZBZ-00054226
Author : John Strype
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1822
Category : England
ISBN : OXFORD:555070100
Author : John Strype
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1822
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433070299221
Author : John Strype
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1822
Category : England
ISBN : MSU:31293030392249
Author : John Strype
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1822
Category : England
ISBN : SRLF:AA0008596538
Author : John Strype
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1822
Category : England
ISBN : HARVARD:HXJNG4
Author : John Strype
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1822
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015022372570
Author : Mrs. A. Murray Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Electronic
ISBN : SRLF:E0000783589
Author : Charles Dodd
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1839
Category : Catholics
ISBN : COLUMBIA:50182437
Author : Charles Dodd
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1839
Category : Catholics
ISBN : HARVARD:32044090304403
